Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying tires, more than anything else, account for the injuries to onlookers and mechanics. When wheel and all takes off and soars 30 or 40 feet through the air, it can be fairly dangerous for those who happen to be within range...
...based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought he had reached the trench. Pete's timing was bad. Most of the time he fell...
When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve their sentences. Handcuffed and flanked by a bevy of U.S. marshals, the eleven Communists were carted off to jail, a former garage, while the long and tortuous process of their appeal began...
While people were still moving out of the Stadium Saturday, somebody wrote on the blackboard in the squad's dressing room last year's Princeton score, followed by "Here's where we repay our lumps."JOHNNY WEST is hoisted off his feet by JIM DEFFLEY, as Co-Captain TOM KELLEHER comes up for insurance...
Levy, a French exchange student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, told police he was walking down Garden Street toward Radcliffe when a man about five feet six inches tall walked up to him and asked for a cigarette...